Restaurants

Unit 5 -
Restaurants

Step 1

If you go out to
dinner in Britain, you will certainly notice that
most restaurants serve exotic food - Chinese, Indian,
Greek, Italian and French cuisine are the most common.
There are few good quality English restaurants but you
can be served a variety of typically English
dishes in pubs.

You often have two or three courses: a starter (soup,
paté, or pasta dishes etc.), the main course (meat or
fish with vegetables) and dessert or pudding. But if you are
having a pasta dish, please bear in mind that it will
not taste like the pasta you have at home in Italy. If
you are having steak, you may choose to have it rare,
medium or well done.

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Unit 5 - Restaurants

Step 2

Meat
and fish are commonly served with potatoes cooked (in a variety
of ways), peas, carrots or other seasonal vegetables.
Meat can also be served with Yorkshire pudding (a baked
unsweetened pastry) and gravy (a sauce made with meat juices
and seasoning). As a matter of fact, most dishes are served
with special sauces, whether hot and spicy - sweet
or creamy.

Another typical dish is pie (meat, fish, fruit or other food
baked inside or under a crust of pastry). The restaurant or
lounge (in pubs) often has two separate areas: a smoking and non
smoking area. When you pay the bill you often leave a tip,
which is usually 10%, if service is not included.